The project space CORNER COLLEGE in Zurich’s 4th district has for some time now been giving invigorating impulses to both art and ­theory, and can be recommended to every visitor to Zurich with a taste for experimental, discursive, sensory cuisine. When I looked in again recently I was caught by a double video projection, whose afterimages flickered for days between the speech centre and visual cortex of my vernally tired brain. The screen diptych screwed into a timber frame coupled a loop repeatedly interrupted by hard black leader, which delivered the negation of elementary identitarian ­sentences in the form of a cunning cultural karaoke, with a subtle narration about zoophilia and painting, taming and assimilation.
The displacement, even dissociation, of body and gesture, voice and language, undertaken with intelligent wit by Aya Momose, stages loud and soft differentiations and what might most aptly be described as an Allo-aesthetics. Despite my enjoyment of the lesson I was given, I didn’t want to remain lost in translation: “Fixed Point Oberservation (With My Father)”, another of the artist’s video works, which forces a question-and-answer game into a monologue, gave me the idea of presenting the artist with a questionnaire …